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Merri Creek near Dight’s Falls
Henry Gritten1863
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
A wood engraving of this image, which was published in 'The Illustrated Melbourne Post' in 1866, attracted the following critique: 'The artist, Mr Henry Gritten, is especially happy in his treatment of Victorian scenery, and were he to go a little further afield in his choice of subjects might rival the fame of von Guérard and Chevalier.' Both Nicholas Chevalier and Eugene von Guérard accompanied Georg Neumayer, the government geophysicist, on expeditions through Victoria in the early 1860s. They exhibited a great number of paintings developed from sketches completed on these journeys.
Details
- Title: Merri Creek near Dight’s Falls
- Creator: Henry C. Gritten, 1818-1873
- Date: 1863
- Location: Merri Creek, Victoria
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1786496
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/282503
- Physical dimensions: 29.6 x 45.1 cm., in frame 40.8 x 55.5 x 3.5 cm.
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- A.E. Ferris: Henry Gritten exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London between 1835 and 1849. Like many others, he was attracted to Victoria by the discovery of gold and arrived in 1853. He subsequently travelled to Tasmania, where he produced a series of similar scenes of Hobart. Gritten often repeated his most popular works, with only minor variations, and he also worked up paintings based on other people's sketches. Gritten was a founding member of the Victorian Academy of Arts, showing a painting of Brighton Beach and a view of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens at its inaugural exhibition in 1870.
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